Does Windows Defender detect

[abhijangda]

Hello friends I am using Windows Defender for more than one month and I hope many of you will be using it. I have a question that windows defender detect any spyware or not. Whenever after visiting some sites whenever I scan my computer through Ad-Aware SE then it detect some cookies as spyware but Windows Defender doesnot even with updated definition anyone of you can tell me the name of a site having spyware so that I could know if windows defender detect any spware or not.

[shantanu]

Defender is working nicely for me... and there is nothing that it cant detect.. some cookies,, are detected by third party programs , just to prove they are good..

[Harvik780]

Yes windows Windows defender is Excellent.it detected spyware on my computer

[s18000rpm]

Originally Posted by Harvik780

Yes windows Bit defender is Excellent.it detected spyware on my computer

not windows Bit defender

its Windows Defender

[Harvik780]

Corrected it.Thanks for notifying.

[ravi_9793]

works fine with my system too.

[abhijangda]

Hey friends I want to test it can't any one of you tell me site which contains so much spyware.

[janitha]

heard that any porno site will have lots of them!
why do you want to take the risk?

[abhijangda]

I want to test it. In 2 days my new 512 Mb DDR2 RAM is coming and I have decided to reinstall windows so please tell me. Don't think about data I have copied it to second hdd. One more thing "to get something we have to loose something."

[janitha]

Then of course take the jump.

[anandk]

windows defender doz NOT detect cookies (as spyware). it choses to ignore them; but its good enuf - though it was rankd rather low in one of the recent comparatives...

downloading free screensavers and installing them is the best way to get FREE spyware . i m sugsting this to u since u have mentioned that u ARE going to reinstal in 2 days. so no harm learning first hand. porn/xxx/crack sites too will oblige u with free malware, btw !

[icehot]

I feel windows defender is the most useless antispyware. It never detects anything and takes a good amount of memory. With windows defender, we cannot scan a particular folder which is possible in AVG antispyware and spyware doctor ---which detect spywares very well.
And I have uninstalled defender. No probs.